fibromyalgia

Pain and the biochemistry of fibromyalgia: patterns of peripheral cytokines and chemokines contribute to the differentiation between fibromyalgia and controls and are associated with pain, fat infiltration and content Gerdle, Björn; Dahlqvist Leinhard, Olof; Lund, Eva; Lundberg, Peter; Forsgren...

In this pilot study, a human intravenous injection of low-dose endotoxin (lipopolysaccharide, LPS) model was used to test if fibromyalgia is associated with altered immune responses to Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4) activation. Eight women with moderately-severe fibromyalgia and eight healthy...

Exploring levels of TSH and FT4 in patients with chronic fatigue syndrome CFS, fibromyalgia FM and healthy controls did not reveal any associations between fatigue score and level of thyroid hormones Elias Skorpen; Nora Bugge Pasca; Solveig Klæbo Reitan; Nina Groven AIMS The diagnoses of...

https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9059/12/1/133 Early Diagnosis of Fibromyalgia Using Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy Combined with Chemometrics by Haona Bao 1, Kevin V. Hackshaw 2,*, Silvia de Lamo Castellvi 1,3, Yalan Wu 1, Celeste Matos Gonzalez 1, Shreya Madhav Nuguri 1, Siyu Yao 1,4...

Metabolic Fingerprinting for the Diagnosis of Clinically Similar Long COVID and Fibromyalgia Using a Portable FT-MIR Spectroscopic Combined with Chemometrics Hackshaw, Kevin V.; Yao, Siyu; Bao, Haona; de Lamo Castellvi, Silvia; Aziz, Rija; Nuguri, Shreya Madhav; Yu, Lianbo; Osuna-Diaz, Michelle...

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Fibromyalgia is a debilitating pain condition for which treatment effects are typically modest. The most evaluated psychological treatment is traditional cognitive behavior therapy (T-CBT), but promising effects have recently been seen in exposure-based cognitive behavior therapy (Exp-CBT). We...

by Ong, et al in Innov Aging. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10714916/pdf/igad070.pdf Five weeks of positive affect training vs a control group of reporting emotions. 43 in each group, mostly female, older than 50, 80% white. Internet training modules: identifying personal...

Patrycja Kamila Przybylowicz, Katarzyna Ewa Sokolowska, Hubert Rola, Tomasz Kazimierz Wojdacz Independent Clinical Epigenetics Laboratory, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland Correspondence: Tomasz Kazimierz Wojdacz, Independent Clinical Epigenetics Laboratory, Pomeranian Medical...

Please see below information about Dr Goebel’s inaugural lecture on the 27th of November 6pm – see details below this email. This can be accessed virtually and will be recorded to watch afterwards too. The lecture itself starts at 6pm. From ilcamsevents: ilcamsevents@liverpool.ac.uk Dear...

Abstract Long COVID (LC) is a multisymptom clinical syndrome with similarities to Fibromyalgia Syndrome (FMS) and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (CFS/ME). All these conditions are believed to be associated with centrally driven mechanisms such as central sensitisation. There...

Long COVID: a new word for naming fibromyalgia? Xavier Mariette Long COVID is the name given to a syndrome comprising a wide variety of symptoms persisting more than 3 months after acute benign COVID-19, with a prevalence ranging from 10 to 80%. Symptoms are very close to fibromyalgia. Several...

23 Published papers to date https://www.mdpi.com/journal/biomedicines/special_issues/LCEP7G06NQ

Now published - link here Preprint Abstract Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) and fibromyalgia (FM) are chronic diseases with poorly understood pathophysiology and diagnosis based on clinical assessment of unspecific symptoms. The recent post-COVID-19 condition, which...

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Prevalence of Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome among Individuals with Irritable Bowel Syndrome: An Analysis of United States National Inpatient Sample Database Abstract: Background and Aim: Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a functional gastrointestinal disorder associated with other...

Objective Fibromyalgia (FM) is characterized by pervasive pain-related symptomatology and high levels of negative affect. Mind-body treatments such as cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) appear to foster improvement in FM via reductions in pain-related catastrophizing, a set of negative...

From the latest Massachusetts ME/CFS and FM Association: DO YOU SUFFER FROM FIBROMYALGIA? This research study investigates whether a method of non-invasive brain stimulation (tDCS) combined with physical exercise can help pain processing in adults with fibromyalgia. This research study requires...

Full title: Anti-satellite glia cell IgG antibodies in fibromyalgia patients are related to symptom severity and to metabolite concentrations in thalamus and rostral anterior cingulate cortex Highlights FMS have higher anti-SGC IgG levels compared to healthy controls. FMS with high, compared...

Abstract Objective Hypophosphatasia (HPP) is a rare disease characterized by incomplete or defective bone mineralization due to a mutation in the alkaline phosphatase (ALP) gene causing low levels of ALP. Disease presentation is heterogeneous and can present as a chronic pain syndrome like...